2024-02-14 15:48:05
West Indies lost the first two matches against Australia by a big margin. In the third and last match of the three-match T20, the defeat was eye-catching. However, the Caribbean avoided a whitewash with Andre Russell’s stormy batting. Rovman Powell’s team won by 37 runs in the last T20 of the series.
On Tuesday (February 13) in Perth after winning the toss and going to bat, Russell and Sherfan Rutherford’s pair of fifties, West Indies lost 6 wickets in 20 overs and got a big collection of 220 runs. In response, even after David Warner’s fifty, Australia could not score more than 183 runs, losing 5 wickets and playing the scheduled over.
West Indies lost three wickets to score 20 runs. Johnson Charles (4), Kyle Meyers (11) and Nicholas Pooran (1) departed one by one. Two more departed a hundred years ago, holding on to that trend. Then Russell and Rutherford tied the pair. West Indies amassed two hundreds in their blistering fifty and record-making partnership.
Russell and Rutherford added 139 runs off 67 balls for the sixth wicket. Which is the record for the highest number of runs for the sixth wicket in T20 Internationals. The previous ones were Papua New Guinea’s Tony Ura and Norman Vanuare. These two made a pair of 115 runs against Singapore.
Russell played an explosive innings of 71 runs off 29 balls with 7 sixes and 4 fours. This hard hitter batsman was also the man of the match. Rutherford scored 67 runs with 5 sixes and 40 balls.
Australia got off to a flying start with Warner’s bat in a huge run chase. But at the other end the procession continued. No one could accompany Warner. Mitchell Marsh, Aaron Hardy depart with few runs. Meanwhile, Warner picked up the 26th fifty of T20 career.
Roston Chase collapses in Australia’s innings. In one over, he returned 25-ball fifties to Warner and Josh Inglis. Glenn Maxwell, who scored a record-breaking century in the previous match, was completely indifferent that day. He played 14 balls to score 12 runs off 2 fours. After that, David stormed, but Australia could not get close to the target. His devastating innings only reduced the margin of defeat.
Summary Score:
West Indies: 220/6 in 20 overs (Rutherford 67*, Russell 71)
Australia: 183/5 in 20 overs (Warner 81, David 41*)
Results: West Indies won by 37 runs
Man of the Match: Andre Russell
Series: Australia won 2-1 in 3 matches
Man of the Series: David Warner